All
her life, Shampoo just wanted to belong somewhere. She
thought her past was behind her when she came to UC Berkeley in the United
States. However, the mysterious glances of one attractive lesbian Jane Dunway
is forcing the purple-haired amazon to realize that she has to make many sacrifices
to get what she wants.

Shampoo's life
was full of sacrifices. Chen was born in the amazon city of Jyung-Sou (Joketzou).
Her mother was an amazon warrior named Mung Bean who died following birth,
leaving Shampoo to be raised by her father Hair Spray and her great-grandmother
Cologne Chen. She was renowned for her martial arts skills and her beauty.
No man was strong enough to beat her and marry her...until Ranma Saotome showed
up in China.

After losing to
Ranma Saotome (then Ranko Saotome) Shampoo traveled back to Japan. According
to amazon edicts, if a male foreigner defeats an amazon, she must marry him.
Ranma revealed his large number of jealous fiances, including Akane
Tendo, Ukyou Kuonji and Ryoga
Hibiki. Shampoo quickly found herself in the chaos of Nerima, Japan.

When Cologne moved
to Japan to help Shampoo win her fiance, Cologne opened a restaurant called
the Nekohaten. Shampoo enjoyed working at the Nekohaten. She enjoyed being
surrounded by the delicious fusion of Japanese and Chinese dishes. She secretly
longed to stay in Japan so she could continue working at the Nekohaten. She
realized that she had to focus on winning Ranma back so her dreams of becoming
a culinary chef had to wait.

Shampoo started
to realize that Ranma was in love with Akane and that there was no possibility
of a future between her and Ranma, She was blindly following her duty to her
great-grandmother and to the sacred code of the Chinese amazon women. Shampoo
realized that she didn't want Ranma Saotome at all- she wanted freedom, especially
freedom from all the chaos that Ranma's life put her through.

Following Ranma's
marriage, Shampoo packed her bags and left for China to take care of her great-grandmother.
Cologne's immediate death allocated Shampoo a large amount of money which
she used to start attending the University of Beijing. She eventually got
enough support to transfer to the University of California, Berkeley. She
declared a double major in Food Science and Women's Studies. Her biggest dream
is to have a restaurant like the Nekohaten and provide fusion cooking. She
also started teaching martial arts, specializing in women's self-defense,
at the university fitness center.

Shampoo also befriended
a young Chinese-American man named Ben Kwong who later became her boyfriend.
Kwong was a tutor at a late-night English-teaching school which Shampoo attended
to master her English. Through Ben, Shampoo discovered Berkeley's diverse
(and conservative) Asian-American community. To blend in for her boyfriend's
sake, Shampoo joined Kappa Alpha Omicron, the largest Asian-American women's
sorority. With a boyfriend by her side, a group of superficial yet supportive
sisters, Shampoo finally felt like she finally belonged somewhere. But all
that changed when Jane Dunway walked into her life and Shampoo started realizing
that she was more drawn to women than to men. Perhaps with the support from
the LGBT community, Shampoo will embrace her true self and find pride in the
woman she is about to become.